Recipe: Easy Cheesecake

Hello everyone! Here's a cheesecake I made for my "Bye bye summer!" sweet table a few weeks ago and it's a recipe I got from my grandmade and her country women club. :)
This is what you need:
- 250g butter, 250g sugar
- 1kg cottage cheese
- 5 eggs
- 1 package of vanilla pudding powder
- 1 package of vanilla sugar
- 1 tea spoon baking poweder
Take a cake pan and spread butter and tiny breadcrumbs all over it and preheat the oven on 175°. Next, take all your ingredients and mix them. Pour them into your cake pan and bake everything for 50 minutes. Then open the oven just a little bit and let the cake cool down slowly before taking it out. :) Serves great with hot raspberries.
Have fun baking!
Lu

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5 Different Handmade Necklaces - DIY: Fabric Bow Necklace

Hello my dear readers! Do you remember my last blog posts featuring the craft supplies of my cooperation partner idee. Creativmarkt? I posted a tutorial for how to make a geometrical wooden ornament necklace, an easy wire statement necklace, a project for how to make a toy animal necklace and another DIY for making a faux leather bunting necklace. This time, I'm going to show you how to make a pretty fabric bow necklace, also using craft supplies I have chosen and idee. Creativmarkt sponsored for this cooperation. Have fun making your own version of this necklace!
Here's what you need (most items available at idee.):
- Fabric & thick interfacing
- A necklace clasp, jewellery glue, tiny jewellery rings and a (cotton) string or cord for the necklace
- A jewellery plier
- A sewing machine and sewing supplies
First of all, cut your fabric into three pieces: front of the bow, back of the bow and the stripe for the middle. Moreover, cut out one piece of interfacing of the same size as your bow pieces which will then give your bow some more volume.
Put both fabric pieces for the bow onto each other, right sides facing. Put the interfacing on top. Then top stitch the three layers onto each other, leaving a small seam allowance on each edge and leave a small opening on one of the longer sides through which you can turn the piece of fabric inside out. Moreover, cut off the four tips of your piece, but don't touch the seam. Then turn the piece of fabric inside out and close the opening with a blind stitch.
Next, take the long stripe, fold it like seen on the photo above and top stitch both edges. Then fold your other piece of fabric to a bow.
Use a thin thread to fix the bow and fold your fabric strap around. Use your sewing machine to sew both layers of the strap onto each other and use a zig zag stitch to neaten the edge. Turn the strap inside out so that you don't see the zig zag edge anymore. Afterwards, take needle and thread and sew your tiny jewellery rings to the bow's top edges.
Take your cord or string and bind it to the jewellery rings.
Then you need the jewellery glue and the necklace clasp.
Glue the cord into the clasp and let it dry.
Now you are done. Have fun with your new necklace! :)
Lu
P.S.: As always, although some of the supplies for this blog post have been sponsored, this doesn't touch my opinion about the sponsor or my decisions concerning this blog post's content!

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Favorite Restaurants and Cafes: Lu Loves Fräulein Burger

Hello everyone! I read about it in Couch magazine, I heard colleagues talking about it, I heard friends talking about it - and then I defintely HAD TO go there!
Since my first visit this past summer (and since when those photos have been waiting on my laptop), Fräulein Burger has become my very very favorite place for eating good burgers and that for two reasons: their burgers are awesome and I absolutely adore the look and overall concept of this restaurant!
When you go there, you'll be overwhelmed of eye candy: Fräulein Burger is lovingly decorated in 60s retro charme, everything is bright, red and white and even the people in the kitchen (into which you can look while you are waiting and eating) and behind the counter wear 60s inspired accessories matching the restaurants interior (oh, how much I love such details). 
Not only the restaurant itself is pretty, but also their corporate design including leaflets, menu and burger atwork on the wall. Everything fits so well together, looks super appealing and makes just happy. I'm a total sucker for great concepts like this!
They have a variety of tasty burgers, but you can even put together your own favorite one. You can choose between normal meat buns, vegetarian burgers or even a vegan version. What is more, their homemade fries and vegetable sticks are sooo delicious!
This is one of the meat burgers which Flo has tried, mmmhh!
If you go there, their homemade sauces are a must and they even make ketchup and mayo themselves.
My favorite is the vegetarian burger with salad and goat cheese, oh my god, so incredibly delicious!
And not to forget that all their ingredients are organic and mostly regional, this makes it even better.

While writing this blog post, looking at those photos made my mouth water and I feel the urgent desire to go there again very soon. :)

In case you're gonna go there, you will enjoy the best (veggie) burger you're ever gonna eat! :)
Happy day!
Lu

Here's how you can find Fräulein Burger:
Fräulein Burger
Koppenplatz 1
10115 Berlin
Call: 030 / 46720908
E-mail: mail@fraeuleinburger.de
Click to visit their website

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DIY: Colorful Bike Restyle.

Hello hello! Eeeeks, I'm so excited about this blogpost, because it is about a project I have been wanting to do for so long!!
I got my current bike more than 15 years ago and although it's a great bike, the colors are totally not my style anymore. I've been thinking about painting it for a long time, but I didn't get startet, because I thought it was too complicated and because I was too lazy.
Then, a few weeks ago, I met someone really nice from edding, a German company which sells all kinds of pens. We talked about DIY projects and their new spray paint and I spontaneously asked if it could also be used for painting a bike...
... and one week later I received a huge parcel with all my favorite colors that I had chosen to test them any way I wanted.
The perfect opportunity to finally get started with restyling my bike! :) This is how it has been looking before, just a normal bike with boring colors. 
What I used for my bike makeover:
- A towel, paper towels, brushes and soap water for cleaning the bike
- If you want to, use gloves to protect your hands from dirt and color
- Painter's tarpaulin (and / or old newspapers) for protecting the floor
- Crepe tape
- Permanent spray paint, plastic primer and universal primer for the undercoat, clear varnish to protect the layers of paint and spray heads in different sizes (I got mine all via edding)
For spray painting a bike, you will need spray paint in your favorite colors, primer and clear varnish. I chose green and white for my bike.
First of all, you need to carefully clean and wash your bike. Remove all dirt, stickers, etc.
Those are the bottles that I used: (1) primer for plastic (for my mudguards), (2) universal primer for all the metal parts of the bike, (3) color spray paint and finally (4) clear varnish for the last layer of paint.
At first, cover all parts of the bike which aren't going to be painted and won't need primer. In my case, I had to protect the saddle, the tyres, the spokes, the brakes, lights and other tiny details. I used tape and newspapers to cover everything. Then I applied the primer to the bike. You then have to let it dry (only took a few minutes) and then, according to the primer's bottle, you should sand the bike a bit, but I left that step out and it still worked well.
Next, you can apply the first coat of paint. I painted all parts of the bike which I wanted to be green.
After the first layer of color has dried properly, you can then cover those parts - I used painter's tarp leftovers for this - and use the next color (I chose white) to spray paint the rest.
After having let the white dried, I removed all the covers. I have to say that spray painting was the easiest part and the colors covered the bike really well. The only annoying and most time-consuming part of the makeover was covering the parts of the bike which I didn't want to paint during the respective step. ;)
After having finished coloring the bike, I waited for the colors to dry and then I sprayed it with three different coats of clear varnish. This should be enough to protect it.
Afterwards, I bought yellow handles and sewed a seat cover (DIY coming soon) to make the makeover complete.
I'm soooo incredibly happy about how this bike has turned out in the end!!
The colors perfectly match my style and absolutely make me happy. I don't wanna do anything else than riding my bike all day. :D
The spray paint is great and I hadn't expected it to be so easy and uncomplicated. You don't need many layers (a maximum of two paint coats is enough), the bottles are easy to handle and the colors are just beautiful. Huh, pretty bike, happy girl!
So here are finally lots of detail photos of my new bike:
My cute new yellow handles have such a great color, too!
Of course I also painted my bike's basket.
Have you already seen that I even painted my bike's bell? I chose bright coral as complementary contrast to all the green elements.
To hide the boring black saddle and to protect it from rain, I spontaneously sewed a rose polka dot oil cloth saddle cover (DIY coming soon).
Colors make me oh so happy!
Awwww, I couldn't be happier about how my bike turned out! It took me a total of about seven hours (as I already said, covering all the parts with paper was the most annoying and time-consuming part) and it was sooo worth it. Now I love my bike more than ever.
What do you say? :)
Happy day!
Lu
P.S.: edding kindly provided me with all this spray paint, but this of course didn't influence this blog post's content and my opinion about their products!

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